Gualterus Anglicus

Gualterus Anglicus (Medieval Latin for Walter the Englishman[1]) was an Anglo-Norman poet and scribe who produced a seminal version of Aesop's Fables (in distichs) around the year 1175.

This author was earlier called the Anonymus Neveleti, referring to attribution in the seventeenth-century Mythologia Aesopica of Isaac Nicholas Nevelet.

[15] When John Lydgate produced Isopes Fabules, the first fable collection written in English, the verse Romulus was a major source.

[16] Particularly sophisticated use of this fable tradition is made later in the 15th century in Robert Henryson's Morall Fabillis, written in Scots.

[17][18][19][20] Early printed editions appeared under the title Aesopus moralisatus, around 1500.